Abstract: A rural area oriented medical cloud system was presented based on WBAN and cloud computing, providing solutions to the lagging behind of medicalcare services in rural areas. The system put forward an architecture work which consisted of both intelligent medical device and comprehensive medical cloud platform. Based on WBAN and intelligent hardware technology, the lowcost, general and scalable intelligent medical device was designed. The lowrate network oriented reliable data transmission was achieved on the basis of realtime data fusion and compressive sensing algorithms. The medical cloud platform was established based on three mechanisms, i.e. integration of multilevel medical resources, sharing of multimode medical services, and high support capabilities for medical services. Compared with other mainstream products, results showed that the system proposed could effectively improve the medical service capabilities, and was helpful for the construction of a new Internet based medical mode oriented to rural areas.

Key words: wireless body area network(WBAN), medical cloud, rural area, cloud service